Apr 08 2008

How much is the US Government spending?

Tag: NEWS — admin @ 11:31 am

There is a website called National Priorities Project. National Priorities Project analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent.

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/

How NPP began 

The National Priorities Project began in 1983 to help community groups understand and respond to federal budget cuts in Massachusetts communities.

Hampered by a lack of information on how federal policies affected local communities, NPP built a coalition of community groups in western Illinois that created the first-ever analysis of the impact of spending policies at the congressional district level. They found that over a two-year period, the First Congressional District had lost over $54 million in housing, education, health care and other monies.

Another website to look at is "The Cost of the Iraq War" to each US Citizen
http://costofwar.com/

I listened to CNN  about this site. It was mentioned that each American Citizen will pay $200 per month to support this Iraq War, but that does not include the debt that has accrued.

The Cost to Floridians - this will surprise you:

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/tradeoffs

 

Wikipedia.org offers more information about the National Priorities Project (NPP)

The National Priorities Project (NPP) offers citizen and community groups tools and resources to shape federal budget and policy priorities which promote social and economic justice. NPP is a nonpartisan and nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization. Greg Speeter is the founder and executive director of NPP. To read more about this project visit the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Priorities_Project